[YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase

Mon Oct 5 21:13:11 UTC 1998

karl at Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) writes:

> Specifically, RFC2008 says:
> 
> While it has never been explicitly stated that various Internet
>    Registries use the "address ownership" allocation policy, it has
>       always been assumed (and practiced).
> 
> That sentence, in particular the last five words of that sentence, are 
> extremely important.  10+ years of a given practice and set of operating
> rules cannot be overturned by fiat.

One might notice that these words were written in an RFC.  Not in a law
book.

They have all of the legal weight of a Jim Flem-o-gram.

Tony